Archive for the ‘biotech/medical’ category: Page 2360
Mar 27, 2017
Elon Musk’s new co could allow uploading, downloading thoughts: Wall Street Journal
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: biotech/medical, computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience, singularity
This is big: Is the Singularity a step closer?
Tesla Inc founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk has launched a company called Neuralink Corp through which computers could merge with human brains, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Neuralink is pursuing what Musk calls the “neural lace” technology, implanting tiny brain electrodes that may one day upload and download thoughts, the Journal reported. (on.wsj.com/2naUATf)
Mar 27, 2017
An Amazing Therapy That Might Cure Age Related Blindness
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
An exclusive interview with Ichor, the biotech company pioneering a SENS based repair therapy that could help cure age related blindness.
Check out our exclusive interview with Ichor the company taking the first SENS based therapy to the clinic. Should clinical trials be a success this will mark the arrival of a technology that addresses one of the aging processes.
Mar 27, 2017
3D printed pills: interview with FabRx at University College London
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
Are 3D printed pills the future? We visited a London laboratory to find out.
Established by academics from University College London (UCL) in 2014, FabRx is a company seeking commercialize 3D printed medicines and devices. On the principle that everyone is different, the vision of 3D printed pills it to be able to provide more personal and specific care to patients in need.
Dr. Alvaro Goyanes is one of the four founding partners of FabRx and the company’s director of development. Dr. Goyanes invited 3D Printing Industry into the lab at UCL’s School of Pharmacy to find out more about the ongoing FabRx research.
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Mar 27, 2017
10 AMAZING Abilities HIDDEN in Your GENES
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGZSm-6ng9k
Amazing Genes are HIDDEN inside of us; Science has found it. In 2014 one of the craziest science experiments by some incredible scientists at Oxford University found that less than 10% of human DNA is active, meaning that the majority of your genetic code is just sitting around doing nothing.
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Mar 26, 2017
Google to bring artificial intelligence into daily life
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: biotech/medical, finance, robotics/AI
Tech to aid video search, detection of disease and of fraud.
Artificial intelligence has been the secret sauce for some of the biggest technology companies. But technology giant Alphabet Inc.’s Google is betting big on ‘democratising’ artificial intelligence and machine learning and making them available to everyone — users, developers and enterprises.
From detecting and managing deadly diseases, reducing accident risks to discovering financial fraud, Google said that it aimed to improve the quality of life by lowering entry barriers to using these technologies. These technologies would also add a lot of value to self-driving cars, Google Photos’ search capabilities and even Snapchat filters that convert the images of users into animated pictures.
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Mar 26, 2017
Scientists Have Turned Spinach Into Beating Human Heart Tissue
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: biotech/medical
Researchers have successfully used spinach leaves to build functioning human heart tissue, complete with veins that can transport blood.
To tackle a chronic shortage of donor organs, scientists have been working on growing various tissues and even whole organs in the lab. But culturing a bunch of cells is only part of the solution — they simply won’t thrive without a constant blood supply.
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Mar 26, 2017
Scientists find a low-cost way to build genomes from scratch
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: biotech/medical, computing, genetics
To put it mildly, sequencing and building a genome from scratch isn’t cheap. It’s sometimes affordable for human genomes, but it’s often prohibitively expensive (hundreds of thousands of dollars) whenever you’re charting new territory — say, a specific person or an unfamiliar species. A chromosome can have hundreds of millions of genetic base pairs, after all. Scientists may have a way to make it affordable across the board, however. They’ve developed a new method, 3D genome assembly, that can sequence and build genomes from the ground up for less than $10,000.
Where earlier approaches saw researchers using computers to stick small pieces of genetic code together, the new technique takes advantages of folding maps (which show how a 6.5ft long genome can cram into a cell’s nucleus) to quickly build out a sequence. As you only need short reads of DNA to make this happen, the cost is much lower. You also don’t need to know much about your sample organism going in.
As an example of what’s possible, the team completely assembled the three chromosomes for the Aedes aegypti mosquito for the first time. More complex organisms would require more work, of course, but the dramatically lower cost makes that more practical than ever. Provided the approach finds widespread use, it could be incredibly valuable for both biology and medicine.
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Mar 26, 2017
Tech world debate on robots and jobs heats up
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: biotech/medical, employment, information science, robotics/AI
Are robots coming for your job?
Although technology has long affected the labor force, recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are heightening concerns about automation replacing a growing number of occupations, including highly skilled or “knowledge-based” jobs.
Just a few examples: self-driving technology may eliminate the need for taxi, Uber and truck drivers, algorithms are playing a growing role in journalism, robots are informing consumers as mall greeters, and medicine is adapting robotic surgery and artificial intelligence to detect cancer and heart conditions.
Mar 26, 2017
A smartphone app can screen for male infertility
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, mobile phones
More than 45 million couples worldwide grapple with infertility, but current standard methods for diagnosing male infertility can be expensive, labor-intensive, and require testing in a clinical setting.
Cultural and social stigma, and lack of access in resource-limited countries, may prevent men from seeking an evaluation. Investigators at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) set out to develop a home-based diagnostic test that could be used to measure semen quality with a smartphone-based device. New findings by the team indicating that the analyzer can identify abnormal semen samples based on sperm concentration and motility criteria with approximately 98 percent accuracy are published online in today’s Science Translational Medicine.
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